The U.S. Supreme Court on this day in 1841 ruled that the 35 remaining survivors of a revolt at sea aboard the Spanish schooner Amistad should be freed and permitted to return to their native Sierra ...

March 9 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1841, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, with one dissent, that the enslaved Africans who seized control of the Amistad slave ship had been illegally forced into ...

Can a US court declare that a group of human beings have no rights and can be enslaved or abused at will with no legal recourse? That question will soon be coming before the Supreme Court. Jeremy ...

In January 1839, 53 African natives were kidnapped from eastern Africa and sold into the Spanish slave trade. They were then placed aboard a Spanish slave ship bound for Havana, Cuba. Once in Havana, ...

William H. Townsend’s pencil sketches of the Amistad captives portray people full of character, who when robbed of their freedom, fought to regain it. The 43 captives’ arrival in New Haven in ...

In the 1841 Amistad case–vividly portrayed in Stephen Spielberg’s movie “Amistad”–the U.S. Supreme Court courageously held that human rights and the rule of law must apply to captives who had been ...

The signature image of the 1839 Amistad revolt is the woodcut from a Connecticut booklet depicting its captain, Ramon Ferrer, being clubbed to death. Now almost 170 years later, a German historian ...

A number of books, fiction and non-fiction, have been written about the 1839 revolt on the slave ship Amistad. The story was made into a movie by Steven Spielberg. BLACK MUTINY: The Revolt on the ...